The National Library of Scotland centenary celebrations continue with the opening today of a new exhibition celebrating all kinds of libraries and the books that shape us.

The top lot at Swann Galleries' Printed & Manuscript Americana auction included the only known letter by Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s grandmother Lydia Mack. 

An archive of letters by Victorian polymath John Ruskin believed to be the be the largest group of Ruskin letters and manuscripts in private hands comes up for sale at Sworders on July 9. This collection of hundreds of letters, many of them offered for sale in groups of up to a dozen, cover…

A selection of historic comic books and original comic art will be going under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' June 26-29 Comic & Comic Art auction.

A new exhibition at The Guildhall in Bath will showcase a selection of the finest books and bindings from Bath Record Office.

In its online Books and Manuscripts sale From Grolier to Godard ending today Sotheby’s is presenting 15 original drawings by Antoine Saint-Exupéry created in Algiers between late 1943 and early 1944, most of them previously unseen.

The first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language has been loaned by Westminster Abbey to St Davids Cathedral where it has gone on public display for the first time this week. The translation of the Bible into Welsh was a key project of the 16th and 17th century…

Coming to auction at Sotheby’s later this month will be the Thirteenth Amendment (estimate: $8m-$12m) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimate: $3m-$5m, both signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The documents will be on public view at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries in New York June 20-25,…

RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale features items related to Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison, and Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd.

The Huntington Library’s new exhibition series in Los Angeles opens June 21 with a focus on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and in particular the library's own Ellesemere Chaucer.